Carrie is on the move

Sorry for the late update but with the size of the surgery and the toll it taking on Carrie, there isn't a lot to update other than Carrie is still sleeping. So unless there is a major update, there will probably only one update per day. So now on to Saturday night and Sunday.

They moved Carrie into a private room around midnight last night. I stayed with her through the night and it was pretty uneventful, she would wake up and we would chat for a few minutes and then she would sleep again. They got her to sit up in a chair first thing this morning for about an hour and a half and then moved back to the bed. They removed her catheter this afternoon so now she has to walk to the bathroom when she needs to use it. This is going to help getting the blood flowing a little better and start getting her stomach to start back working enough that they will be able to give her more solid foods. Right now she is still on a clear liquid diet. She did some physical therapy this afternoon and actually walked down the hall a little bit and back to her room. She still has her chest tube and the doctors are watching it closely and think that they might be able to remove it tomorrow. She is doing more and more breathing treatments each day to help get her lungs back to working at full capacity. We haven't been told how long they are expecting her to stay in the hospital since we got here but we haven't talked to her doctor since Friday either. Please continue to pray for Carrie. At 3am this morning she said that her pain level was an 8 on a scale of 1 to 10. And this is while she is on the morphine drip. But as the day went on she said she wasn't hurting as much. (She still has a death grip on the little red button that controls when she gets morphine).

Jason